This is an opinion piece, not hard proof. It leans heavily on unverified, and mostly unverifiable, interviews, and it repeatedly blurs the line between trade, ownership, commercial exposure and direct participation. Even the article itself admits that official Chinese policy bars Chinese nationals from working in settlements, then tries to get around that with anecdotal claims. That is nowhere near strong enough evidence to prove that China is building settler housing in the West Bank.

And honestly even if you took the article at face value, it would only be damning in isolation. The bigger picture is that China is deeply entangled on the other side of the regional balance through Iran: China buys the overwhelming majority of Iran’s exported oil, which is a major economic lifeline for the axis of resistance, and U.S. sanctions actions in 2025 repeatedly targeted China-based entities involved in supplying missile and drone-related inputs and sensitive machinery to Iranian networks. BeiDou is being used by Iran for navigation and targeting. So even on the strongest reading, this still falls prey to the point from the beginning:

Trade must not be confused with participation in a war or with rendering assistance.